{"product_id":"leadership-keith-grint-9780199569915","title":"Leadership: A Very Short Introduction","description":"Napoleon. Bill Gates. George W. Bush. Osama bin Laden. Leaders and leadership are perennial topics of debate. What is leadership? How does one become a leader? Do we actually need leaders? In this \u003cem\u003eVery Short Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e, Keith Grint offers provocative answers to these questions, prompting readers to rethink their assumptions about what leadership is. Indeed, Grint argues that leadership is a very elusive quality, and that there are few definitive answers to be found, which explains why most books on leadership produce so much heat and so little light. But there are important questions to ask, questions which shed light on why leadership so resists definition. Grint looks at the way leadership has evolved from its earliest manifestations in ancient societies, highlights the early ideas about leadership found in Plato, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and others, considers how social, economic, and political forces can undermine particular modes of leadership, and discusses the practice of management, its history, future, and influence on all aspects of society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Grint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199569916\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199569915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.72w x 0.35d","brand":"Keith Grint","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047261991167,"sku":"9780199569915","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f2964ae-8325-4d85-b9df-eb19842c6480.jpg?v=1684989192","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leadership-keith-grint-9780199569915","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}